Fwd: Usability Workshops

[Kevin Funk]

Hey guys,

There is a usability workshop during Akademy this year where one can get 
his/her applications tested by a volunteer who's unaware of the application in 
use. KDevelop would fit into this workshop perfectly well, because, ahem, I 
think it's still somewhat rough to get started with it at first.

Jos likes to have at least two developers per app. I don't really consider 
myself a core developer now, but proficient enough to guide users through 
KDevelop. Does anyone else want to join me in the workshop? Then I'd send the 
application to Jos so we could get KDevelop dismantled by usability people. ;)

Cheers

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Betreff: Usability Workshops
Datum: Montag, 8. Juli 2013, 18:26:44
Von: Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet at gmail.com>
An: akademy-attendees at kde.org

Heya folk!

One of our resident usability experts, Björn Balazs, will team up with yours 
truly to host a Usability Workshop on Monday.

The plan will be more or less as follows:
* We center the session around one or a small number of applications. This 
will be decided, as much as possible, in advance of the sessions.
* Björn will introduce the sessions with some theory about user tests and 
usability.
* we find a volunteer from the audience who isn't experienced with the 
application in question
* we let a developers from the application guide the user through the app, 
asking questions (avoiding suggestive ones). Björn guides the developer 
through this.
* afterward we discuss the results. Perhaps the developers can hack on their 
app now, in any case: everybody did learn something.

I have booked 10:30-12:30 and 14:00-16:00 on Monday room B3 for two sessions. 
With great demand we could add sessions (or have less if nobody cares).

>From you folks, especially the developers who participate in Akademy, I'd like 
to know if you're interested in having your application be the victim.

A few things to note:
* Ideally, at least 2 developers are present
* Ideally, it is possible to find people unfamiliar with the application (very 
hard for Dolphin and Gwenview, for example)
* This type of usability testing tends to show the Real Bad Stuff™, it's not 
terribly good at fine tuning an already quite good application.

So who's up for having his/her app checked out?

Cheers,
Björn and Jos
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